Title roll call

Not much urge to update lately, but I wanted to get these titles down so that the books can go back to the library.

#47 is Loose Lips: A Roman a Claire by Claire Berlinski. I thought this would be a chick lit going in, but it definitely morphed genres on me and ended up being more of a quasi-literary look at the process of becoming a case office for the CIA. Is it semi-autobiographical or just very realistically vivid? Wheels inside wheels and somewhat unsettling.

#48 is Lion Eyes by Claire Berlinski. This is loosely considered to be the sequel to the previous book and yet it's written from the pov of Claire who is the author of a book entitled Loose Lips and how writing the book causes dramatic and unexpected events in her life. The life of the book Claire very much mirrors the life of real life author Claire so what's real and what's fiction becomes hopelessly entwined. Plus, book author Claire meets characters who are very similar to characters from the world created in Loose Lips. It's a very unusual authorial device and not always completely successful. But, it does have some artful rumination of the seductiveness of online relationships and the narrative device of beginning each section with either a review of the the first book or an Amazon reader comment is quite witty.

#49 is Bit the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy. This one didn't switch genres on me. Vampire chick lit set in modern Vegas centered on a 400 year old Irish vampire who's been celibate for two centuries and the quarter-Korean virginal stripper who he turns to prevent her untimely death. Need we really say more? ;)

Now, back into relative obscurity I go.

Title roll call

Not much urge to update lately, but I wanted to get these titles down so that the books can go back to the library.

#47 is Loose Lips: A Roman a Claire by Claire Berlinski. I thought this would be a chick lit going in, but it definitely morphed genres on me and ended up being more of a quasi-literary look at the process of becoming a case office for the CIA. Is it semi-autobiographical or just very realistically vivid? Wheels inside wheels and somewhat unsettling.

#48 is Lion Eyes by Claire Berlinski. This is loosely considered to be the sequel to the previous book and yet it's written from the pov of Claire who is the author of a book entitled Loose Lips and how writing the book causes dramatic and unexpected events in her life. The life of the book Claire very much mirrors the life of real life author Claire so what's real and what's fiction becomes hopelessly entwined. Plus, book author Claire meets characters who are very similar to characters from the world created in Loose Lips. It's a very unusual authorial device and not always completely successful. But, it does have some artful rumination of the seductiveness of online relationships and the narrative device of beginning each section with either a review of the the first book or an Amazon reader comment is quite witty.

#49 is Bit the Jackpot by Erin McCarthy. This one didn't switch genres on me. Vampire chick lit set in modern Vegas centered on a 400 year old Irish vampire who's been celibate for two centuries and the quarter-Korean virginal stripper who he turns to prevent her untimely death. Need we really say more? ;)

Now, back into relative obscurity I go.